February 2017 Monthly Goodreads
- D4C Team
- Mar 8, 2017
- 1 min read
Welcome to our February 2017 Monthly Goodreads!
Articles
Melinda Gates: I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today Without Contraceptives (Fortune)
London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse merger in doubt (BBC news)
Hundreds' of US Jewish graves attached in Philadelphia (BBC news)
Yemen: Art, love, bombs and bans (Al Jazeera)
US: Remembering Japanese internment camps 75 years on (Al Jazeera)
Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library (Al Jazeera)
100 days of demonetisation: Stories of hardship (Al Jazeera)
South Africa lets 100 mental patients die (The Economist)
Why national budgets need to take gender into account (The Economist)
The Man Who Let India Out of the Closet (The New York Times)
South Africa, a Nation With Sharp Inequality, Considers a Minimum Wage (The New York Times)
Meet Aisha, a former antelope hunter who now tracks Boko Haram (The Guardian)
Books
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair (by Nujeen Mustafa)
Inside the Nudge Unit: How small changes can make a big difference (by David Halpern)
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of Silicon Vally Are Changing the World (by Brad Stone)
Podcasts
The Syrian Conflict (University of Oxford)
How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips (npr)
Pentagon Officials Review Overall Strategy To Fight ISIS (npr)
Videos
Why Silicon Valley Is In Another Tech Bubble (Bloomberg)
Snap Fizzles as Shares Take a Beating for Second Day (Bloomberg)
So Hype for Hyperloop | Crunch Report (Tech Crunch)
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